Distinguished Speaker Series
Distinguished Speaker Series: Widespread non-Mendelian inheritance in hybrid mice
Andrew Feinberg, MD, MPH, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University
January 26 2025, Holcblat hall 007, Shenkar building, Exact Sciences Faculty, Tel Aviv University
Distinguished Speaker Series: Developing AI-Assisted Diagnosis Systems for Rare Diseases
Prof. Ting Chen, Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, China.
March 20 2024, Check Point building, room 420, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
Distinguished Speaker Series: Structural modeling of cellular interactome
Prof. Ilya Vakser, Director, Computational Biology Program and Center for Computational Biology, Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Kansas, USA.
February 21 2024, Sherman building, room 632, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Distinguished Speaker Series: Bioinformatics challenges in complete genomics and metagenomics
Prof. Pavel A. Pevzner , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego
21 May 2023, 11:15, Jaglom hall, the Senate building, Tel Aviv University
Distinguished Speaker Series: Infecting and programing brain organoids
Prof. Nikolaus Rajewsky, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
April 20 2023, Jaglom hall, the Senate building, Tel Aviv University
Prof. David Gresham, Faculty Director of Bioinformatics, Center of Genomics & Systems Biology, New York University
March 30 2023, Sherman Building, Hall 002, Life Sciences Faculty, Tel Aviv University
*CANCELLED* - Distinguished Speaker Series: Charting γ secretase substrates by explainable AI
Prof. Dmitrij Frishman, Department of Bioinformatics, Technical University of Munich, Germany
March 23 2023, Sherman Building, Room 632, Life Sciences Faculty, Tel Aviv University
Distinguished Speaker Series: Predicting protein-protein interactions at low and high resolution
Prof. Barry Honig, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University Medical Center
March 12 2023, Britannia Building, Hall 006, Life Sciences Faculty, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Reuven Agami, Oncogenomics Unit, the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI, Amsterdam), Oncode institute, The Netherlands.
January 12 2023, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, room 100, Tel Aviv University
Distinguished Speaker Series: Docking-based simulation of cell-size protein systems
Prof. Ilya Vakser, Director, Computational Biology Program and Center for Computational Biology, Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Kansas, USA.
December 15 2022, Sherman building, room 632, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Teresa Przytycka, Head, Algorithmic Methods in Computational and Systems Biology group, NCBI, NLM, NIH Bethesda, MD, USA
December 8 2022, Check Point building, room 420, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
Distinguished Speaker Series: Cell state dynamics and plasticity in tumorigenesis and drug resistance
Prof. Itai Yanai, Institute for Systems Genetics & Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine
November 13 2022, Britannia 06, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Distinguished Speaker Series: Computational biology reveals mechanisms of protein-DNA binding
Prof. Remo Rohs, Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
October 24 2022, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, room 123, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Pavel A. Pevzner , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego
19 October 2022, 11:15, Check Point building, room 420, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
Distinguished Speaker Series: Mapping the human body: locating cells in space & time
Dr. Sarah Teichmann, Head of Cellular Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Director of Research, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
July 20 2022, Room 222, Britannia building, Life Sciences Faculty, Tel Aviv University
Distinguished Speaker Series: Open question in recombination detectability
Prof. Jotun Hein, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
April 25 2022, Room 222, Britannia building, Life Sciences Faculty, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Jotun Hein, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
April 7 2022, Room 222, Britannia building, Life Sciences Faculty, Tel Aviv University
Distinguished Speaker Series: Mapping paths of tumor evolution with single cell phylogenetics
Prof. Nir Yosef, Department of Systems Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, and Department of electrical engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley
April 6 2022, Check Point building, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
Distinguished Speaker Series: The Future of Predictive Medicine
Dr. Ben Y. Reis, Director, Predictive Medicine Group, Harvard Medical School
21 July 2021 at 11:15, Melamed Hall 006, Exact Sciences Faculty, Tel Aviv University
Distinguished Speaker Series: Single-cell transcriptomics based precision oncology
Prof. Eytan Ruppin, Chief, Cancer Data Science Lab, NCI, NIH
3 February 2021, 16:00 (Israel time), Webinar
Distinguished Speaker Series: Metagenomic Assembly: from metaSPAdes to metaFlye
Prof. Pavel A. Pevzner , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego
5 November 2020, 16:00 (Israel time), Webinar
Distinguished Speaker Series: Quantitative microbiome profiling in health and disease
Prof. Jeroen Raes, Bioinformatics and (eco-)systems biology lab, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega institute, KU Leuven.
15 September 2020, 11:00am Israel time (10:00am CEST), Webinar
Prof. Joseph Lewnard, School of Public Health and Center for Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley
7 July 2020, 20:30, Webinar
Distinguished Speaker Series: Global organization and evolution of the virus world
Prof. Eugene Koonin, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
25 February 2020, 14:15
Prof. Simon Kasif, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
26 December 2019, 11:00
Prof. Eytan Ruppin, Chief, Cancer Data Science Lab, NCI, NIH
27 November 2019, 11:00
Distinguished Speaker Series: Analytics of single cell RNA-seq: identifying actionable targets in autoimmunity
Prof. Nir Yosef, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley
25 November 2019, 13:00
Distinguished Speaker Series: Integrating 3D structure into Systems Biology
Prof. Barry Honig, Columbia University
18 November 2019, 10:00
Distinguished Speaker Series: Self-replicating Sets of Molecules in Hypergraphs and Chemical Space
Prof. Jotun Hein, Chair of Bioinformatics, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, UK
23 October 2019, 11:00
Dorit S. Hochbaum, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, UC Berkeley
14 August 2019, 11:15
Distinguished Speaker Series: De novo transcriptome reconstruction from long reads
Prof. Paul Medvedev, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Director of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Pennsylvania State University
26 June 2019, 12:00
Distinguished Speaker Series: Design principles for regulating mRNA translation speed and efficiency
Prof. Yun S. Song, Computer Science and Statistics, UC Berkeley
24 June 2019, 11:00
Distinguished Speaker Series: Data structures to represent sets of k-mers
Prof. Paul Medvedev, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Director of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Pennsylvania State University
18 June 2019, 12:00
Distinguished Speaker Series: Machine Learning: Trends, Perspectives and Challenges
5 June 2019, 13:00
Distinguished Speaker Series: One complete and one in progress study in phylogenetic analysis
15 April 2019, 10:00
Distinguished Speaker Series: Molecular Design for Research and Therapeutics
11 April 2019, 11:00
Distinguished Speaker Series: The role of genetic factors in shaping the gut microbiome
26 March 2019, 14:00
Distinguished Speaker Series: How did we stop HIV evolution?
26 February 2019, 14:00
Distinguished Speaker Series: Virtualized drug development for (truly) personalized drug therapy
8 January 2019, 11:00
23 December 2018, 14:00
Distinguished Speaker Series: Three principles of data science: predictability, computability, and stability (PCS)
Prof. Bin Yu, Departments of Statistics and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley
20 December 2018, 11:10
Prof. Haiyan Huang, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
18 December 2018, 14:00
Distinguished Speaker Series: Personalized health – harnessing the power of diversity
Prof. Burkhard Rost, Technische Universitat Munchen
29 October 2018, 10:15